Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological" home you let us run around un-channeled. Respect and taste were completely neglected in the half-baked theory that any regimentation would warp our sensitive personalities ... It has resulted in a general feeling in my generation that anyone behaving decently, learnedly, or intelligently is either a comic figure or most unnatural...
...with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
Most American comedy zigzags its merry way between a spoofing irreverence and a spanking incongruity. At times, it darts down the side streets of satire; often it winds up in the zany alleys of fantasy. At its pithy best, the comic cartoon can do all these things at once. Three cartoon books by the pithiest practitioners of this minor art have appeared just in time to tickle the fun-loving Christmas trade...
...Roman commander (Robert Taylor) and a Christian hostage (Deborah Kerr) who, as the ads say, must struggle between her faith and "his powerful masculine appeal." Between Actor Taylor's woodenness and the coyly pallid playing of Actress Kerr, the struggle seems tame enough to justify one unconsciously comic lapse into domesticity. After Deborah is snatched from the stake and Christianity bests Nero's regime in a spectacular upheaval of death and destruction, Commander Taylor bids goodbye to his trusted friend: "Come visit us in Sicily, and bring Drusilla and the children...
Movies will get still another boost at 10:30 p.m. tonight when two College seniors and two Radcliffe undergraduates appear on Al Capp's television show originating at the WBZ-TV studio. When not performing, Capp draws the comic strip, "L'll Abner...